Judge delays execution of mentally ill Texas inmate who gouged own eyes out

Andre Thomas, 39, was set to be executed on 5 April for killing his estranged wife and her two children in 2004

A scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate whose attorneys say gouged out both of his eyes, in separate incidents, because of severe mental illness was delayed by a judge on Tuesday.

Andre Thomas, 39, was set to be executed on 5 April, for fatally stabbing in March 2004 his estranged wife, Laura Christine Boren, 20, their four-year-old son, Andre Lee, and her 13-month-old daughter, Leyha Marie Hughes, cutting out the hearts of the children.